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because of shooting. The JCF officers took cover and were “pinned down for
about 4 minutes”. He subsequently saw the two bodies put on Waugh’s truck.
He also saw some of his team clearing a pathway but not engaged in detailed
searches before 7.30 p.m.
25 May
10.53.
On 25 May, about 7.30 a.m. he drove a truck into the community
on the instructions of SSP Graham and DSP Tabannah. Cons. Maxwell went in
the truck with him along with about 6 other policemen. He said that he was
instructed by Supt. Budhoo “to roam through the community” and he did so. He
also went to Denham Town. He said of his collections:
“We found some bodies on the roads and on pathways.
Maxwell recorded the locations. I do not know the names of
locations. I picked up 13 bodies. At KPH the doctors
pronounced all dead. Maxwell made a record. I took the
bodies to Madden’s.”
10.54.
Sgt. Pratt confirmed that he and Sgt. Waugh did not coordinate
their movements. He said that Cons. Maxwell was writing and trying to ascertain
the identities of bodies from civilians, mostly women. He (Pratt) retrieved bodies
from sidewalks or pathways.
Records of KPH
24 May
10.55.
The records of KPH, produced by Dr. Natalie Whylie, made no
mention of two bodies being brought by anyone, far less Sgt. Waugh, and
pronounced dead by doctors on 24 May. DSP Tabannah, in answer to
Miss Martin, explained that it was necessary to have a pronouncement from a
doctor before taking a body to a funeral home. He said “doctors don’t keep
them (bodies) there” (KPH). “The doctors will tell them to take them (bodies) to
Madden’s”.